Senate Bill sb2620c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 2620

    By the Committee on Education; and Senator Diaz de la Portilla





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the State Homeland Security

  3         Trust Fund; creating s. 288.833, F.S.; creating

  4         the State Homeland Security Trust Fund, to be

  5         administered by the Department of Emergency

  6         Management; providing for sources of funds and

  7         purposes; providing for review of requests for

  8         funding; providing for annual carry-forward of

  9         unused funds; providing for review and

10         termination or re-creation of the trust fund;

11         providing a contingent effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Section 288.833, Florida Statutes, is

16  created to read:

17         288.833  State Homeland Security Trust Fund.--

18         (1)  There is created the State Homeland Security Trust

19  Fund, to be administered by the Department of Emergency

20  Management. Funds shall be credited to the trust fund as

21  provided in s. 288.857(4)(c), to be used to fund state

22  homeland security with priorities for funding to focus on

23  expenditures not funded by the Federal Government, such as

24  operational costs of security at seaports and other venues.

25  Requests for funding shall be reviewed by the Domestic

26  Security Oversight Board, which shall provide recommended

27  funding priorities.

28         (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

29  pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the

30  end of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund at the

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    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 2620
    304-2670-04




 1  end of the year and shall be available for carrying out the

 2  purposes of the trust fund.

 3         (3)  In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the

 4  State Constitution, the State Homeland Security Trust Fund

 5  shall be terminated on July 1, 2008, unless terminated

 6  sooner.  Before its scheduled termination, the trust fund

 7  shall be reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).

 8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004, if

 9  Senate Bill 2614, or similar legislation creating the Florida

10  Commerce With Terrorist States Act, is adopted in the same

11  legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes law.

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13          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
14                         Senate Bill 2620

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16  Provides that the trust fund created by the bill must be
    administered by the Department of Emergency Management.
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    Provides that funds transferred to the trust fund must be used
18  to fund state homeland security, with priority for funding
    expenditures not funded by the federal government.
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    Provides that requests for funding must be reviewed by the
20  Domestic Security Oversight Board.

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